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Add to or increase a body site (e.g., plastic reconstruction procedure, implant, prosthesis, bone or soft tissue graft).
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UK: Provision of additional benefits for particular members of an occupational pension scheme. The cost normally falls on the employer.
See: ambulatory utilization review (AUR).
the FSA’s Authorisation manual.
1. Verify authorship of a patient’s medical record by signature, initials, or rubber stamp that data are accurate, complete, and final. 2. Verify or identify access privileges of a user or user device to an information system. 3. Process to certify that a document is genuine.
A firm with FSA permission to effect and carry out insurance contracts (other than a bank). See AUTHORISATION.
A person who has been authorised by the FSA to have a Part IV permission of the FSMA to undertake one or more of the regulated activities. Persons must meet the threshold conditions detailed in the Threshold Conditions Manual. Insurance applicants must be a body corporate excluding limited liability partnerships, registered friendly societies or members of Lloyd’s.
Professional firm that is an authorised person and therefore has a Part IV permission from the FSA to carry on one or more regulated activities. When undertaking non-mainstream regulated activity, APF exemptions apply.
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UK: exemptions The disapplications and modifications of the FSA’s Handbook that apply in respect of APFs when undertaking non-mainstream regulated activity.
See: UNIT TRUST.
Method of type of approval that requires a determination that the service is likely to have a diagnostic or therapeutic benefit for patients for whom it is intended.
Written medical or scientific conclusions demonstrating the medical effectiveness of a service produced by the following: controlled clinical trials, published in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals; controlled clinical trials completed and accepted for publication in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals; assessments initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); evaluations or studies initiated by Medicare contractors; case studies published in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals that present treatment protocols.